Q: The importance of conveying scientific information on climate and CC into appropriate actions for the local community and sectors.
Ans: Lack of awareness exists at all levels from decision maker, officials in sectors and locality, to vulnerable communities.
Therefore we emphasize on the awareness raising for all levels. Health news is a perennial favorite of news outlets, including newspapers, television, radio, and online. The climate change and health story, especially to the degree that it can be localized, has considerable potential to interest local news outlets.
Briefing the editorial board of your local paper, local TV and radio producers, local weather casters, and prominent local bloggers are all potentially helpful options.Framing climate change as a public health issue creates opportunities to engage important new partners in the issue who, in turn, can help explain the issue to the public and decision-makers, and who can help develop and implement response plans. Protecting human health is an issue that crosses institutional, scientific, and political boundaries.
A focus on improving health is an important way to humanize the issue of climate change, and to encourage cross-cutting collaborations across communities. Reframing climate change as a public health issue can help reveal local angles of a global problem, thereby making the problem more concrete, and moving the location of impacts closer to home.
To many people, the problem of climate change is global and abstract, while human health impacts are local and concrete. So, at local level the response to climate change should be closely linked with international policy and national strategy and policy should be issued. By framing climate change as a local public health issue is possible to replace people’s mental associations of climate change as being geographically and socially distant with more proximate and relevant mention associations, such as the risks to children, the elderly, and the poor, in local communities.
Q: What are the methods to control flood risks?
Ans : In many countries, rivers prone to floods are often carefully managed. Defences such as levees, bunds, reservoirs, and weirs are used to prevent rivers from bursting their banks. When these defences fail, emergency measures such as sandbags or portable inflatable tubes are used. Coastal flooding has been addressed in Europe and the Americas with coastal defences, such as sea walls, beach nourishment, and barrier islands.
A dike is another method of flood protection. A dike lowers the risk of having floods compared to other methods.[citation needed] It can help prevent damage; however it is better to combine dikes with other flood control methods to reduce the risk of a collapsed dike.
A weir, also known as a low head dam, is most often used to create millponds, but on the Humber River in Toronto, a weir was built near Raymore Drive to prevent a recurrence of the flooding caused by Hurricane Hazel in 1954, which destroyed nearly two fifths of the street.
Q: How the flood and Tsunami hazard maps are useful to prevent the flood and Tsunami risks?
Ans : The flood and Tsunami hazard maps are useful to identifying the location of higher risk level area and formulating a plan for when an emergency situation arises. These maps are empirically defined using a deterministic approach based upon historical data.
Q: What is the most efficient option of adaptation for increasing flood magnitude in future you think?
Ans: Many of the recommended adaptation options are considered to be “no- regret” as they are consistent with best practice and would be applicable under any future climate scenario. These include improved monitoring, long term, risk based-integrated planning, enhancement of natural systems, decentralization and diversification of options and general social development and flexible, responsive institutions and systems.
Q: What is the disaster related to water people are mostly concerned in your country? Please pick up a disaster event and report us about it.
Ans:
Drought Disaster in Maharastra, India:
Maharashtra state was affected by the region’s worst drought in 40 years,worst-hit areas are Jalna, Jalgaon and Dhule are also affected by the famine. Millions of people in Maharashtra are at serious risk of hunger after two years of low rainfall in the region.
Flood Disaster in Uttrakhand, India:
On June 2013 Uttarakhand received heavy rainfall,massive Landslides due to the large flashfloods, it suffered maximum damage of houses and structures, killing more than 1000 people, sources claimed the death toll could be rise up to 5000. Uttarakhand Flash Floods is the most disastrous floods in the history of India.
Q: Why are the climate change adaptation is important for sustainable development in your country and sustainability in the world?
Ans: The climate change adaptation is important for sustainable development in India and sustainability in the world:
1) Climate change cannot be totally avoided.
2) Anticipatory and precautionary adaptation is more effective and less costly than forced, last-minute,
emergency adaptation or retrofitting.
3) Climate change may be more rapid and more pronounced than current estimates suggest. Unexpected events are possible.
4) Immediate benefits can be gained from better adaptation to climate variability and extreme atmospheric events.
5) Immediate benefits also can be gained by removing maladaptive policies and practices.
6) Climate change brings opportunities as well as threats. Future benefits can result from climate change
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